Visits now show up in the live feed
Until today the live feed only knew one thing about places: that somebody crossed into a city. That line fires the moment a pilot's position lands inside a city boundary, so it says very little. You can clip the edge of Hamburg on the way somewhere else and the feed will tell everyone you arrived.
Visits are different. An airport visit takes two minutes of flying low over the field, and a city visit takes three minutes inside the city. That is the thing that builds up the visit tiers, the mayor and captain seats, the airport passport on your profile and the lists of the busiest airports and biggest cities. It was also the one thing the feed never mentioned.
Now it does. When a pilot earns a visit, a new line appears in the live feed:
- Airport visits read "visited the airport ✈ Hamburg Airport", with the visit tier next to it (Visitor, Regular, Local, Resident or Home base) and the day count once the pilot has been there on more than one day.
- City visits read the same way with 🏙 in front of the city name.
The airport name links to its page. A city links to its landing page when it has one; smaller towns that count as visits but have no page of their own show the name without a link.
You see these lines in the feed tab of the in-game chat widget, on the live page, and in the panel on the site's top bar. They count as "People" in the feed filters, next to arrivals. They also light the small pulse on the feed icon, because a visit is something a pilot actually did and not just a page load.
A few rules, the same ones the airport and city pages already follow:
- There is one line per pilot, per place, per day. Flying over Hamburg Airport five times in an afternoon still gives one line, because the visit itself only counts once a day.
- Only signed-in pilots appear. A guest's visit is held until they sign in, and then it is the account that visited.
- If you turned off "Show my name on airport and city pages" (on the airport page or on My airports), no line is written for you at all. Your visits still count for you; they just don't get announced.
- The place-specific feeds on city and country pages are not affected. They keep showing arrivals and builds for that place.
If you want to try it, open the map, pick an airport with a ring around it and fly there. Stay under 500 metres above the field for two minutes and watch the feed. More on how visits and tiers work is in the post about airport visits and the one about city visits.